Democracy Rising 15: Getting Started with Dialogue and Deliberation, Part 4
Even as an ordinary citizen you can begin engaging and facilitating change by starting with dialogue right where you are, and building from there.
Why Are Anger and Social Violence Increasing In America?
We humans use our minds to create the world we live in, so the better we understand how our minds work, the more successful we will be in creating the world we live in….and more importantly, the world we want to create.
The Radical Open Access Collective: Building Better Knowledge Commons
The Radical Open Access Collective is one of the key forces trying to show how commoning in scientific and scholarly publishing can actually work.
A note on land value tax
So while an LVT might be a slight improvement on the present situation, I can’t get hugely excited about proposals to end human misery either through an LVT charged by the central state or through overthrowing the centralized state to create … another centralized state.
Our struggles are your struggles: stories of Indigenous resistance and regeneration
Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 73 Stephen Dinan
Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. He addresses the quetion of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Easier said than done: National self-sufficiency in a changed world
National self-sufficiency has suddenly become important in the wake of the geopolitical earthquake created by the Russian/Ukrainian conflict. But it will be far harder to achieve than many people think.
The toxic cloud called ‘Internet’
“If we’re fortunate,” Crary dares to hope, “a short-lived digital age will have been overtaken by a hybrid material culture based on both old and new ways of living and subsisting cooperatively.”
The Bright Ages: Review
To understand racism and misogyny — or any kind of thing-ness — and the violence entrained in these ideas, you must understand the history of the Middle Ages, what we pejoratively label the Dark Ages and what Matthew Gabriele and David Perry have renamed The Bright Ages.
How Not to Cope with Vladimir Putin by Drilling and Pumping
Today, as enthusiasm for a carbon tax wanes, climate proposals like cap-and-ration that directly target the fossil-fuel industry while protecting everyone’s access to energy are gaining broader support.
Revolutionary threads in feminist art
Protesting textile workers of 1800s Paris share ideological threads with garment industry strikers from India to Lesotho today. Like them, in the face of injustice, we should recognise the value of crafting resistance and sewing dissent.
Ukrainian Conservation Organizations Shift Missions to Humanitarian Support
Ukrainian conservation organizations have largely shifted their efforts to support refugees and other citizens in need, even as the environmental toll from the Russian invasion continues to loom over the country’s future.
